At Monday night's General Session meeting in Atlantic Beach, town council tackled several issues, among them, setting a date for a mayoral re-election
The initial date was to be Tuesday, February 3, but that motion did not pass. Councilman Jake Evans and Mayor pro-tem Charlene Taylor voted yes and Councilman Donnell Thompson and Councilwoman Retha Pierce voted no.
After that deadlock, Pierce read a letter from an attorney stating the town needed to have the re-election sooner than the suggested date. Pierce then put forth a motion for the date of the re-election to be the first Tuesday in December. Thompson voted yes, Evans voted no, Pierce voted yes, and Taylor abstained.
Other items on the agenda include the issuance of a $400,000 General Obligation Bond and a proposal from Statesville Housing Authority.
Interim town manager Charles Williams told council members the bond is a way for the town to operate and give the town the opportunity to retire its debt. Williams told council getting the bond is the best way to go.
David Meachem, Executive Director of the Statesville (North Carolina) Housing Authority and the Housing Authority of Atlantic Beach also presented town council with what he called a management proposal for the town. Meachem said the town and the housing authority are inextricably linked and his organization immediate goal is to get the town council members working together and focused on saving the town. Some of the solutions Meachem offered include short and long term financial management. According to Meachem’s proposal, part of that solution includes the Statesville Housing Authority providing management, legal, accounting, and administrative services for the town for a certain period of time.
“We’re going to move it forward by asking the Statesville Housing Authority that we’re going to study the proposal that they gave us, and if we can get an agreement with them it would be a good proposal, we also asked the town manager to go out and do the ordinance,. Prepare the ordinance and bring it back to us and to me that’s the quickest way to do that because if we has the money at hand it’s, what do you say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and so we will have that money to start our process with.” said Taylor.
Town council is scheduled to revisit both the bond issue and the Housing Authority proposal at the next meeting.
Taylor said, “Hopefully, we have no doubt that it’s going to come through and so it’s a struggle, but we fell like we’re going to make it.”
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